How to forbid user to close alert dialog touching outside it?

Question

I have this dialog fragment class:

class AskDownloadFragment : DialogFragment() {
private lateinit var navController: NavController
private lateinit var mainActivity: MainActivity

override fun onCreateDialog(savedInstanceState: Bundle?): Dialog {

    mainActivity = activity as MainActivity

    return activity.let {
        // Use the Builder class for convenient dialog construction
        AlertDialog.Builder(it).setMessage(R.string.want_to_download)
            .setNegativeButton(R.string.no) { _, _ ->
                dismiss()
            }

            .setPositiveButton(R.string.yes) { _, _ ->
                dismiss()
                mainActivity.showDownloadDialog()
            }
            .setCancelable(false)

            // Create the AlertDialog object and return it
            .create()
    }
}

}
And I cal it this way:

AskDownloadFragment().show(supportFragmentManager, DialogTags.TAG_ASK_DOWNLOAD.toString())

I can see the dialog on the screen, but I'm still able to close it touching outside alertDialog. What can I do?

If it helps, AlertDialog has setCanceledOnTouchOutside(boolean); function, according to the docs it's a function from the Dialog class that you are deriving from, check if it works (don't know how to write it in kotlin though) — Dan Baruch, Jun 17 '21 at 07:27

che10 · Accepted Answer · 2021-06-17T07:42:03.570

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Just simply use this key

.setCanceledOnTouchOutside(false)

So overall it will be like

class AskDownloadFragment : DialogFragment() {
private lateinit var navController: NavController
private lateinit var mainActivity: MainActivity

override fun onCreateDialog(savedInstanceState: Bundle?): Dialog {

    mainActivity = activity as MainActivity

    return activity.let {
            // Use the Builder class for convenient dialog construction
            val dialog = AlertDialog.Builder(it).setMessage(R.string.want_to_download)
                    .setNegativeButton(R.string.no) { _, _ ->
                        dismiss()
                    }

                    .setPositiveButton(R.string.yes) { _, _ ->
                        dismiss()
                        mainActivity.showDownloadDialog()
                    }
                    .setCancelable(false)
                   

                    // Create the AlertDialog object and return it
                    .create()
            dialog.setCanceledOnTouchOutside(false)
            dialog
        }
}

edited Jun 17 '21 at 07:42

answered Jun 17 '21 at 07:28

che10

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Yes, I read about this method before asking the question, but I have `Unresolved reference: setCanceledOnTouchOutside`. I write line of code exactly where you showed and in docs I saw same code – Max Siomin Jun 17 '21 at 07:36
Yes I missed that. Let me fix it @Shroud228 Check the answer again – che10 Jun 17 '21 at 07:40
@Shroud228 We need to create it first and then set it false and then return it – che10 Jun 17 '21 at 07:42
What means last line "dialog". You accidentally skipped something? – Max Siomin Jun 17 '21 at 07:45
I was meaning to return it. I don't have access to an IDE rn, so something in the scope of let is wrong @Shroud228 Basically as I said you need to create it then set it to false and then return it. Let me try to fix it. – che10 Jun 17 '21 at 07:48

How to forbid user to close alert dialog touching outside it?

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